Therapy for Couples
Whether you're facing ongoing struggles, experiencing a recent shift in your connection, or simply want to deepen your bond, couple therapy can help you navigate the challenges you’re facing and create a path forward.
Couple Therapy Can Help You:
Navigate Conflict Constructively
Rebuild trust
Strengthen emotional connection
Navigate life transitions
When beginning couple therapy, expect to start with a combination of individual and joint sessions to allow the therapist to learn about your relationship history and who you are individually and together.
While every couple is unique, you can expect:
To learn and practice communication skills
To identify your conflict patterns and triggers
To deepen your understanding of each other and yourselves within the relationship
To gain tools to navigate conflict and challenges
To gain tools to deepen your bond and emotional intimacy
You should not expect your therapist to tell you if you should stay in or leave a relationship. Unless safety is a concern, this is not the the therapists’ role. We help couples increase understanding of the dynamic, but whether to stay or leave is a personal decision - and not one that can be outsourced.
We’ve come to embrace individual therapy as a valued part of mental health, yet couple therapy still carries more hesitance. Many hesitate to speak openly about seeking help with a partner. Unlike individual therapy, couple therapy can still feel like a signal that something is broken, often seen as a last‑ditch effort to preserve the relationship. This perception means couples frequently wait too long, staying in unhappy patterns for years and increasing the likelihood that therapy becomes a marker of an impending split.
Somehow, we’ve normalized individuals seeking support to navigate stress and anxiety, but when two people with a lifetime of their own stories and attachment styles come together, the expectation is that they’ll figure it out alone.
Like individual therapy, couple therapy equips you with tools to navigate the ups and downs together and shouldn’t last forever. Couples often find ‘check in’ or maintenance sessions helpful after ending therapy.
Couple therapy can be useful even if the relationship doesn’t continue. It can help couples navigate the decision and process of separation. And for many, the issues that come up in one relationship will come up again. Couple therapy can help us understand our role within relationship dynamics.
If you’re interesting is discussing couple therapy, please schedule a consultation below.
